I just got back from another great trip to the US Heartland where I was speaking at the Heartland DevCon (#HDC13) in Omaha. Last year I premiered at #HDC12 my session “ iOS Development Survival Guide for the .NET Guy ”, which now has become my most popular...

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Keith Ward during my last trip to Chicago when I was speaking at Visual Studio Live! We talked about the Windows Phone platform from the developer perspective, why developers should care, what the opportunities...

I spent a few days this week at Xamarin EVOLVE , hanging out with the Xamarin folks, the mobile cross-platform dev community, talking to attendees at our booth and speaking about mobile geospatial development. It was definitely a great event and Xamarin...

I’m exhausted… I’m still recovering from my days in Vegas last week… You might say “ What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas ”, but then again you’d get the wrong idea about why I’m exhausted. It probably has something to do with presenting FIVE breakout...

I just came back from Dallas where I spent a few days at the Dallas Day of .NET. I’d like to thank the attendees who attended my two talks on iOS Development and Designing Data Visualizations. It’s always great to hang out with the developer community...

Every January 1st for the past 9 years, I’ve been getting an email from Microsoft titled “ Congratulations 20YY Microsoft MVP! ” ( enum YY {Max = 13, Min = 05}; ) where I have the honor and privilege of being re-awarded as Microsoft MVP for Windows Phone...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the Visual Studio Live! conference last week, located in the Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando and part of the Live! 360 overarching conference. It was a fun week, I got a chance to meet many great attendees and...

I have a confession to make. Even though I am Canadian, until this summer, I had never travelled west of Ontario in my home country. Never. It’s kind of shameful. I’ve travelled all over the US and the world, yet I had never set foot in the four provinces...

I want to express a warm thank you to all the HDC attendees who came to my talk last Thursday , titled “ iOS Development Survival Guide for the .NET Guy ”. We had a big crowd in the room and I had a lot of fun delivering this talk. This was actually quite...

Are you going to Microsoft Tech · Ed in Orlando next week? If so, make sure to look me up and say hello. I'm always looking forward to geeking out with other developers. Show me your mobile apps, ask me questions about Windows Phone development...

Thank you to everyone who attended my TechBash sessions last Saturday. It’s never easy to give up half a weekend to go learn cool new developer stuff and hopefully it was all worth it for you. As mentioned, all my presentation slides and demos are...

Earlier in March I attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) for the first time in four years. That week, I had the pleasure of connecting with Jerry Nixon , Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado, who interviewed me for Bytes by MSDN . Join us...

Thank you to everyone who attended my #DiDN12 session on this cloudy (pun intended) Saturday morning. I greatly appreciate everyone’s dedication to get up early and give up half of their weekend to come listen to the bald French-Canadian yap about...

Sorry for the delay folks. If you attended my talk at CodepaLOUsa a couple weeks back in Louisville, KY, here are the presentation materials I promised you . In this ZIP file you’ll find my presentation deck, as well as the sample Windows Phone...